Family questions suicide ruling, will call on Louisiana AG to investigate

2:47 PM,
Dec. 27, 2012

Police officials study the scene where a 28-year-old man was found dead inside a car Monday on an on-ramp to Interstate 49 in Opelousas. The death of Keith Trosclair of Patterson in St. Mary Parish has been ruled a suicide. Family members say they would like the Louisiana Attorney General's Office to investigate.

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WILLIAM JOHNSON
Daily World

OPELOUSAS, La. -- Family members of Keith Trosclair are questioning police reports that he killed himself on a roadway in Opelousas the day before Christmas.

Deborah Foster of Franklin, whose daughter is married to Trosclair's brother, said Trosclair was a happy young man who was excited about Christmas. She said there is no way he would have taken his own life and is calling for a full-scale investigation.

"I don't want this to be a slap-dash affair. They are brushing this off because it was Christmas," said Foster, who said she is asking the state's Attorney General's Office to launch its own ...